TWISTED TALES FROM THE VINYL WASTELANDS The Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands series takes the listener on a dark adventure, a wrong turn into a bizarre, alternate world of American country music performed by small town, unknown hicks. The second volume, Beating On The Bars, collects eighteen ultra- rare hillbilly 45s recorded for long-lost independent record labels. The theme this time is incarceration – the county lock-ups, state pens and prisons. When Johnny Cash released his live at Fulsom Prison and San Quentin LPs to critical acclaim and commercial success, small-town hopefuls rushed into backwoods recording studio across the South to tell their own tales of crime and punishment. Until now, most of these records lay forgotten in the solitary confinement of the bargin bins. BILLY BARTON * CHUCk WeLLS * The deluxe, gate-fold LP sleeve (and 16 page 1 Wanted MAN 10 Down & OuT CD booklet) features, liner notes from TRAVeLIN’ TeXANS * SANFORd CLARk * Country Music legend Bill Carter, track-by- 2 Beatin’ ON The Bars 11 IT’S Nothing TO Me track comments from Texas rockabilly singer (and serial killer researcher) Mack Stevens, GARY WILLIAMS * STeRLING BLYTHE * 3 Walla Walla State Prison 12 YOu Picked Up A StrangeR plus an original short story from underground writer Avery Powell, all pulled together with BILL CARTeR * THE WRAY BROTHERS * 4 Shot FOuR TimeS ANd Dy’in 13 Ninety Nine Years TO GO amazing graphic artwork from acclaimed illustrator Olaf Jens. JOhNNY STARR * TOMMY FAILe * 5 Lewisburg Prison 14 The Rest OF MY Life 6 TOM EDWARdS * 15 EDDIe NOACk * Release date: Cook COunty Jail Invisible StripeS January 22th dOOdLe DUNCAN * STONeWALL JACkSON * 7 death Row 16 Life TO GO LP: TPR 5502-1 CD: TPR 5502-2 LEE hAZLeWOOd with DUANe EDDY * COuNTRY JOhNNY MAThIS * 8 The Girl ON death Row 17 Caryl Chessman dANNY dILL * JIMMY MINOR * 9 he’S BIding His Time 18 death Row .